noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chance/opportunity to express sth
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The debate will give MPs an opportunity to express their views in detail.
accept an opportunity
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I wish that I’d accepted the opportunity to retire when it was offered.
afford (sb) an opportunity/chance
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It afforded her the opportunity to improve her tennis skills.
ample time/evidence/opportunity
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You’ll have ample time for questions later.
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There is ample evidence that climate patterns are changing.
an exciting opportunity
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The job offers an exciting career opportunity for the right individual.
an investment opportunity
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She took advantage of a unique investment opportunity.
be glad of an opportunity/chance/excuse to do sth
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They were glad of the chance to finally get some sleep.
career opportunities
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Students often know little about the career opportunities available to them.
employment opportunities (= jobs that are available for people to apply for )
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There are very few employment opportunities in the area.
equal opportunities
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The government must make sure that all children have equal opportunities in education.
equality of opportunity formal
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The government must ensure equality of opportunity for all children.
grabbed...opportunity
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She grabbed the opportunity to go to America.
ideal opportunity
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The scheme offers an ideal opportunity for youngsters to get training.
lose a chance/opportunity
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If you hesitate, you may lose the opportunity to compete altogether.
maximize opportunities/chances etc
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The career center will help you maximize your opportunities.
offer an opportunity/chance/possibility
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The course offers the opportunity to specialize in the final year.
opportunity...too good to miss
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The opportunity was too good to miss so we left immediately.
pass up a chance/opportunity/offer
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I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university.
photo opportunity
relish the chance/opportunity
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He relishes the chance to play Hamlet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ample
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In other words, we must motivate our learner to think, and give her ample opportunity to do so.
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We felt we had ample opportunities to express our differences through discreet channels.
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In fact there was ample opportunity to achieve this objective.
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You can re- create a rundown play involving four different defensive players and still have ample opportunity to observe the next pitch.
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Conflict: there is ample opportunity for this information to be acquired and used by other divisions within the conglomerate.
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We gave him ample opportunity to leave with class and style, reputation intact.
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In the nursery class, a semi-structured interview schedule was used, with ample opportunity for expanding answers.
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This provides the reader or reviewer ample opportunity to write notes in regard to your material.
early
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Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
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But I will, at my earliest opportunity , pursue the dastardly suspicions raised by these most unexpected and perhaps revealing clues.
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If you are wrongfully dismissed, you should therefore seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity .
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That is what we intend to do when we remove the Government from office at the earliest opportunity .
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It should be noted that this type of shelf should be replaced with something more suitable at the earliest opportunity .
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As he had done in Pretoria Braam Van Straaten easily landed two of his three early opportunities .
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I asked for that to be done at the earliest opportunity , the following morning at 9 o'clock.
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Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity .
economic
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Some of them, like some Karavas, seized available economic opportunities and joined the new élite.
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I imagine for better economic opportunity .
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A very high proportion of prisoners come from a background of grossly limited educational and economic opportunity .
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He also reckons the economic opportunities aren't fantastic for Internet companies any more.
educational
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Second, general educational opportunities are under threat.
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Crystal has had steady, stable personal relationships, family support, the benefits of first-rate community programs, and educational opportunities .
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There were tasks for everyone which took account of intelligence, educational opportunities and personal gifts.
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But, little by little, educational opportunities began to be foreclosed for girls.
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The famous Education Act of 1944 extended educational opportunity but did little to alter the nature of it.
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Women are discriminated against in employment and educational opportunities and suffer from pervasive cultural and traditional biases and prejudices.
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Like Dorothy Heathcote, he is interested in giving children an educational opportunity .
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They saw in educational television the opportunity to get a jump start on quality education at comparatively low cost.
equal
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These will cover areas such as equal opportunities , multi-cultural education, cross-curricular themes, competences and dimensions and special needs.
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Since Partnerships have a responsibility to achieve equal opportunities for all young people, community organisations should participate at the planning stage.
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The equal opportunities strategy is, the writers claim, likely to be self-defeating.
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Partnerships should develop strategies for promoting equal opportunities .
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They need to be aware, and should be, of equal opportunity policies as well as trends and developments in their professional environment.
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As statutory services continue to implement an equal opportunities policy these matters will need sensitive handling by social services.
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At its heart was the pressure of blacks and of their liberal white supporters for equal opportunities in education.
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The intention, to create a curriculum which gives equal opportunity to all, is admirable.
golden
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The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.
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But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.
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Local radio Here is your golden media opportunity for local radio is an expanding market place for public relations.
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Personally, I think you have a golden opportunity before you.
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This is the golden land of opportunity .
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To some animals, this moisture is their golden opportunity and perhaps their signal for dispersal.
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For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war.
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Tamny was appalled that Harleston had passed up a golden opportunity to dismiss Jeffries.
good
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A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.
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Analysts rate the area one of the few good domestic opportunities for new gambling ventures during the coming year.
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This closes the opponent off and presents you with a good opportunity to continue the block into the opponent's face.
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That, he said, suggests better opportunities for diagnosing nerve damage, and better chances for rehabilitating injured patients.
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Dave Thomas, spokesman for the band, said it was a good opportunity for the band to reach a wider audience.
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Who ever had a better opportunity ?
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Most of these exercises are double cast so that there are good opportunities for several readings of the main characters.
great
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The contracting culture should mean greater opportunities for voluntary sector providers, but Mussenden identifies problems.
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A much greater opportunity , as everyone agreed.
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The earlier that users were involved in systems design, the greater the opportunity to introduce systems in a flexible manner.
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He said he thinks the spouses were looking for a place with greater shopping opportunities .
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Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin, and he used it to the full on this occasion.
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So the great opportunity for planning had been lost.
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We also had lots of room, which provided great opportunities not only for tall buildings but for wide buildings.
ideal
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Male speaker Our community has three artists working from these workshops and this seemed an ideal opportunity to show their work.
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Problem-solving time is also an ideal opportunity to get some insight into how you are feeling and how your child is feeling.
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Workshops are an ideal opportunity to meet tutors and exchange ideas with fellow students.
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This was an ideal opportunity for a friend of mine who is a gifted seminar leader.
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Many catering colleges consider the award to be an ideal opportunity to evaluate their students' progress against other catering colleges.
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It is exclusive to Club 18-30, and offers an ideal opportunity to meet other couples on holiday.
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However, it is an ideal opportunity to meet one's colleagues on a regular basis and to discuss matters of concern.
new
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A hectic, but enjoyable annum ahead brings masses of new openings and opportunities to explore and exploit.
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With each shift come new opportunities and threats for affected organizations.
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And we intend to give council tenants new opportunities themselves to improve the flat or house in which they live.
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If there is any truth to the saying that out of adversity comes new opportunities , then the timing is perfect.
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The way this business is moving, you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner.
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Retrospective conversions and new resources offer opportunities for scholars, but they do pose problems for librarians.
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Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.
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The expanding non-agricultural sector itself provided farmers with new opportunities and incentives.
perfect
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This match must have seemed the perfect opportunity for him to display his undoubted pace.
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For Joseph LaRue, it was the perfect opportunity to do some growing up.
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Slightly puzzled, he decided to wait for the perfect opportunity .
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My phone call was a perfect opportunity for you to go public with the information.
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Charles had a perfect opportunity to show the world that the Waleses are a family reunited.
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Car rides, like mealtimes, can be perfect opportunities for conversations.
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So here was the perfect opportunity for the profession as a whole to look decisive and effective.
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A visit to West Dorset also offers a perfect opportunity to try your hand at windsurfing.
rare
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These records provided a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves as a means of assessing seismic hazard.
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I believe that in his treatment of me, I had the rare opportunity to see exactly how a person treats himself.
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Otherwise Signor Gismondi would not have granted you this rare opportunity .
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They are a rare opportunity to penetrate the usual wall of indifference.
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I only ask because you may miss a rare opportunity to improve you life in April, due to misplaced prejudice.
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Taylor offered his group a rare opportunity: the freedom to do basic research for a handsome corporate salary.
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Today is a rare opportunity for Ulster Members to have parliamentary time.
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It represents a rare opportunity to bring your own bottle, without incurring a corkage fee.
unique
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There seems to have been very little resentment that Eva should have such a unique opportunity .
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This is a unique opportunity not available to trainees elsewhere.
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But it seemed a waste not to seize the unique opportunity to stretch your brain on something that genuinely excited you.
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You should, therefore, act now to take advantage of a unique investment opportunity .
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This is a unique and irreplaceable opportunity .
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University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience.
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That certainly would have created a unique photo opportunity .
■ NOUN
business
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Never has the start of a new decade been met with such exciting business opportunities .
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Bimpson recognised a business opportunity when he discovered that the government had secured domain names for all the schools in his borough.
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As general economic conditions and business opportunities change, so must the budget change.
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In due course there may be significant business opportunities in these countries, but the immediate need is for educational help.
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It will be expensive, but such innovation will lead to new business opportunities .
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These can provide the basis of a new business opportunity with relatively little risk.
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Jackson estimated the total potential value of these business opportunities at $ 200 million.
cost
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A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did.
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Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate, similarly lowering fertility.
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This reflects the actual opportunity cost of the resources to society as a whole.
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Lost revenues during shutdown periods are opportunity costs that can temporarily reduce profits.
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Their social opportunity cost may be close to zero.
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The opportunity cost will be the higher of the two options i.e. £5,000.
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Using the opportunity cost concept, we consider the alternative.
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Such continued reliance on paper will represent an increasing opportunity cost to organisations.
employment
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Women had the vote, and education and employment opportunities had increased significantly for single women.
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She said she reported the incident to the company's equal employment opportunity manager, who took no immediate action.
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For the people, this meant stable price levels, rising living standards, and increased employment opportunities .
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Low Countrymen emigrated to the interior, often temporarily, to take advantage of employment opportunities .
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Blacks migrated to the District, first to avoid slavery and then for federal employment opportunities which free enterprise long denied.
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But agriculture and industry together account for two-thirds of national income and four-fifths of national employment opportunities .
job
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So has the parallel progress of women's education, giving them at least in theory the same job opportunities as men.
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They expect me to prepare them for this job and their next job opportunity .
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Technology and innovation Superstores provide many job opportunities .
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I believe there is a direct correlation between the creation of job opportunities and the number of nominees you see every year.
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It is argued that the measures would restrict training and job opportunities .
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They see the outdoors as a recreation activity, not a job opportunity .
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We needed an effective and interesting way of telling our jobseekers about training and job opportunities in the clothing industry.
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As school enrollments increase, job opportunities for assistant principals will grow.
photo
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Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story.
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During the talks, a news blackout eliminated contact with the press except for photo opportunities .
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Never have soundbites, photo opportunities and spin mattered so much.
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You get great photo opportunities on this tour and interesting commentary from the guide.
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It's just that Diana hogs all the photo opportunities .
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Dole has been more adept at seizing photo opportunities in his out-of-town forays.
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Posturing while she checks her lip gloss. Photo opportunity with the dying.
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Most never really progress beyond the photo opportunity stage of involvement.
■ VERB
afford
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At the same time it afforded a public opportunity for emulation in what Veblen would have termed conspicuous waste.
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Some of these may well have afforded opportunities for wealth accumulation and polygamy.
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As Lyman and Scott explain: Free territory is carved out of space and affords the opportunities for idiosyncrasy and identity.
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Advanced courses afford the opportunity to study classical religious and anti-religious texts of influential philosophers from Plato to Sartre.
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Sexuality affords us the opportunity of transgressing the barrier separating life from death.
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She was a professional; she couldn't afford to let opportunities pass.
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Neither believes that absolutely no one should ever be afforded opportunities that are not the birthright of their class.
arise
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Shortly after graduating in 1987, the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student, Tom Kidd.
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Take the opportunity , when it arises , to convey something of help or value to the receiver.
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As they gain confidence in the therapist opportunities will arise again for these issues to be discussed.
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Radio people are keen professionals so find out who makes the decisions and seize opportunities as they arise .
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A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa.
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Plenty of animals take up unlikely opportunities as they arise .
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Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design.
create
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Agriculture has also been the beneficiary of rapid industrial growth and urban development, which have created expanding market opportunities .
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It creates opportunity for the storefronts along Congress, all too many of which are vacant these days.
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Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room.
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Gutfreund felt the firm created the opportunity for Rubin and therefore deserved the bulk of the rewards.
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The provision of the equipment does not ensure the mathematical experience, but can create opportunity for it.
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They come out in large numbers and create a great photo opportunity when rising out of the snow.
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It was another United man, Phil Neville, whose run created the opportunity .
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Public organizations can create a spectrum of opportunities , which different communities can seize as they are ready.
develop
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The Society will continue to review business opportunities to develop the Group's activities.
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At the other end of the spectrum, young lawyers joining prestigious firms often have little opportunity to develop close client relationships.
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There will also be opportunities to develop or practice consultancy and training skills.
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And there are few opportunities for students to develop such ability before they enroll in those courses.
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Management here is aimed at giving pupils the opportunity to develop these characteristics.
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Some states, such as Oklahoma, give the parties the opportunity to develop a procedure for resolving impasses.
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I am keen for them to have a greater opportunity to develop both their working and their family lives.
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It also provides opportunities for pupils to develop vital skills and learning strategies that can be applied across the school curriculum.
give
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The rally gives owners an opportunity to meet fellow enthusiasts and even the chance to buy.
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This was a thinly disguised device designed to give Harleston the opportunity to ease Jeffries out painlessly and to find a replacement.
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Charge payers are therefore given at least two opportunities to pay their community charge instalment.
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I wanted to give our activists every opportunity to prepare themselves for the firestorm of controversy and political backlash that would ensue.
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But it does give us an opportunity to examine our institutions.
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This extends across all five years and gives students the opportunity to handle animals from the start of the course.
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Instead the market has expanded, giving all operators the opportunity to make a profit.
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Within three months it was obvious that, given the opportunity , these children could be very bright.
grasp
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Isabel had grasped the opportunity of his presence to escape from Gloucester.
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Perhaps only Chandos boss Brian Couzens would grasp an opportunity like that.
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One person will grasp an opportunity with enthusiasm, whereas another will recoil from the same chance with anxiety and fear.
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Seth and his followers quickly grasped their opportunity and immediately closed the lid and fastened it securely.
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The Prime Minister failed to grasp that opportunity .
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Many labour-only subcontractors have grasped the opportunity to expand initially to a labour and material sub-contractor and subsequently to a general contractor.
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Should not the Government grasp that opportunity ?
learn
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Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring.
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Working in the kitchen to prepare a meal provides opportunities to learn about weights, measures, and fractions-and cooperation.
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Everyone has a contribution to make to ward teaching and the student should take every possible opportunity to learn .
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My involvement with counseling was marked by continuing opportunity to learn and by a strange draw toward more and more troubled people.
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It compounded what had been learnt, and gave the opportunity to learn new skills through five different types of dive.
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In this procedure, the processing elements compete for the opportunity of learning .
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There you will have the opportunity to learn about clog making and cheese preparation.
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For this reason, learning organisations invest in creating face-to-face opportunities for learning and knowledge sharing as as well as information technologies.
lose
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Thus, a person who becomes a slave loses this opportunity .
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It would be stupid, though, to lose the opportunity that all of this presents.
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It would be terrible if you lost this opportunity .
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The concern in 1970 was that women were losing ground in educational opportunities .
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They have lost that opportunity , and it will not come again this side of the election.
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Having lost the opportunity to oppose the factory itself, local opposition first focused on the factory's dumping plans.
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The impact of lost opportunity on organizational performance will always be problematic.
meet
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Those participating had the opportunity to meet with top government and industry officials in the host nations.
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Informal chats with guests provide an excellent opportunity to meet consumers and answer their questions about farming and food production.
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Diamond apparently was delighted with his opportunity to meet President Zedillo.
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The rally gives owners an opportunity to meet fellow enthusiasts and even the chance to buy.
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It is exclusive to Club 18-30, and offers an ideal opportunity to meet other couples on holiday.
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I constantly sought cover from a host of opportunities to meet my Maker.
miss
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The Waterford vase had gone - she had missed her opportunity .
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Many of them therefore missed early opportunities for building good will among their subordinates, just when they needed it most.
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Not being a woman to miss an opportunity , she described their previous meeting.
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The missed opportunities and hidden costs for Zappo were enormous.
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Once again in desperate time trouble, Karpov misses this golden opportunity .
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Of course, we had an excuse; we had to have an excuse for missing such a huge opportunity .
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His tenure is described as a succession of missed opportunities .
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But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.
offer
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Then Saughton Sports Centre is offering an ace opportunity you can't turn down.
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The daily firings produced by the withering economy offered loopholes of opportunity for a young man who kept his eyes open.
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Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers.
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It offers plenty of opportunity for discussion.
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A visit to West Dorset also offers a perfect opportunity to try your hand at windsurfing.
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In spite of the protection offered by equal opportunity laws, women tend to be overlooked and receive fewer promotions.
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Retrospective conversions and new resources offer opportunities for scholars, but they do pose problems for librarians.
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The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay offers such an opportunity .
open
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It opens up opportunities to supply a wide variety of users with information which is timely, accurate, significant and relevant.
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The fliers knew there was a spoiler on the horizon, knew that delay might open a window of opportunity for others.
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Despite the requirement to open contracts and business opportunities to all comers, somehow those countries manage to choose their own nationals.
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Taylor said the opening up of opportunities for minorities in television would lead to more opportunities in films.
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This can open up new opportunities and create social mobility.
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Even limiting the choice to alternative financial assets still opens up many opportunities .
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We will make financial assistance available for part-time study. Open up new opportunities for study.
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To become pro-active, keep an eye open permanently for opportunities to take further steps forward towards profit.
present
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Whether the vendors' financial arrangements present any structuring opportunities ?
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The time for adding new water presents an opportunity for cleaning the tank generally and giving close inspection to the inhabitants.
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Dudley also presented Richard Baxter with opportunities for public preaching.
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The turmoil of reorganization always presents such opportunities .
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A debate would present a good opportunity to underline the fact that many countries are experiencing far more difficulties than we are.
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Every one of these nodes presents the opportunity for snooping.
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For many visitors to the country the stations might present the main opportunity to see apartheid in action.
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The results are likely to come as a surprise presenting many untapped market opportunities and will certainly dispel complacency.
provide
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This programme was designed to improve their relationship with Gary by providing opportunities for mutually reinforcing activities.
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Trips provide opportunities for learning geography and map reading.
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Today's carriage visit to Grasse provided a most suitable opportunity .
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And parenthood does provide opportunities to help children help themselves: Get to know your children.
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The enlarged Group provides enhanced opportunities for portfolio rationalisation through sales and asset swaps.
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Team members stay in one job for several months, but can then change to provide fresh challenges and opportunities .
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Group treatment can also provide an opportunity for patients to share experiences and learn from each other.
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The market provides plenty of opportunities , and trade-offs.
seize
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Some of them, like some Karavas, seized available economic opportunities and joined the new élite.
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Leaders seize opportunities and push ahead.
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Their desire to leave farming will simply be increased and they will seize the first opportunity to move.
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Over most of the twentieth century organizations worried about choosing and seizing growth opportunities through adding capacity and people.
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A local feudal family, the BalÜici, seized their opportunity and established themselves as rulers of Zeta.
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How do you seize the opportunity ?
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Radio people are keen professionals so find out who makes the decisions and seize opportunities as they arise.
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The elite nature of the scientists and their consequent alienation from many of these changes prevent them from seizing upon these opportunities .
take
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I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon's phone number so they could contact me if they wished.
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I had taken the opportunity to break out a pair of bright red suspenders with large gold dollar signs running down them.
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These shears are not generally available to the public, so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now.
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I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province.
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Mr Young said he has had to sell stock he would prefer to keep in order to take advantage of new opportunities .
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I hope that they will take the opportunity to ask Mr. Millan to release these moneys for the benefit of their areas.
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Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze, Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment.
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He had taken the opportunity of riding for a big stable with both hands and notched his first Group race victory.
waste
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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They pointed to the wasted opportunities .
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Not to mention wasted opportunity for the thousands of amputees better deserving of such an opportunity.
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The campaign does not want to waste the opportunity .
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All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord's.
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They paid dearly for wasting goalscoring opportunities .
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Then Wayne Bullimore wasted a great opportunity for Barnsley after he beat Gittens.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a golden opportunity
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By not buying that stock, I missed a golden opportunity to become a millionaire.
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As a result a company may have a golden opportunity to remove its operators from their central role in controlling production.
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But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.
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But Tories have attacked the decision and say a golden opportunity to boost foreign trade links could have been lost.
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Classic footage, but a golden opportunity wasted to trace his career from his Olympic gold medal days.
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For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war.
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Personally, I think you have a golden opportunity before you.
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Tamny was appalled that Harleston had passed up a golden opportunity to dismiss Jeffries.
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The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.
grasp an opportunity
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One person will grasp an opportunity with enthusiasm, whereas another will recoil from the same chance with anxiety and fear.
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Perhaps only Chandos boss Brian Couzens would grasp an opportunity like that.
leap at the chance/opportunity
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It would be naive to believe that there aren't lots of people who would leap at the opportunity.
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Some may leap at the chance.
miss a chance/opportunity
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It would be unforgivable to miss this opportunity to travel.
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He didn't miss an opportunity.
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He must not miss a chance when it comes through being preoccupied with something else.
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History was being catalogued here, the missed opportunities, blunders, and outright mistakes.
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However, though I had missed a chance, the advantages were now all on my side and distinctly in my favour.
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It was a missed opportunity that they might never regain.
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Now, as many times before, the City is missing a chance to put the system right.
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The missed opportunities and hidden costs for Zappo were enormous.
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The snakes are sometimes hard to find, so the Webers never miss a chance to make a kill.
seize a chance/an opportunity/the initiative
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After they had refused him the opportunity of improving his position, he resigned.
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All he needs is an opportunity to show his ability.
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All over the world women are demanding equal opportunities.
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Career opportunities for nurses have improved in the last 10 years.
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Educators are worried about rapidly diminishing opportunities for graduates.
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It was too good an opportunity to pass up.
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She was delighted to have an opportunity to talk with someone who shared her interest in classical music.
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There are several opportunities for experienced designers and researchers.
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We see this as an exciting opportunity for our companies to work together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton could challenge his allies to face that difficult reality and begin formulating alternative means for expanding opportunity .
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Critics had the opportunity to write poetically of the ceaseless, easy flow of rivers and this one in particular.
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I bowed to each one, smiling whenever one of them gave me the opportunity .
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If it came, it came; it was no reason to turn from opportunity .
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On the other hand, in urban areas there are now more opportunities for women with high school education to find jobs.
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Problem-solving time is also an ideal opportunity to get some insight into how you are feeling and how your child is feeling.
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That is an opportunity cost just like investment analysts view opportunity costs.